We built this because we needed it
Our kids introduced us in 2022, pointing at each other across a frozen yogurt shop on the first day of first grade, the way children just know. Turns out, so did we.
We have spent four years walking alongside women, and alongside each other, through the terrain of healing, motherhood, identity, and becoming. We both work with psilocybin as earth medicine. We have guided others as they've begun their own relationship with it. And we have witnessed, over and over, what becomes possible when women are held in real community.
On any given day you'll find us somewhere in the Denver suburbs deep in conversation about curly hair, the moon, social justice, children with enormous feelings, the precise hierarchy of snacks, and various favorite moments of Heated Rivalry .
We are so glad you're here!
Meet Chelsea
I know what it feels like to collapse; not in one area, but in all of them at once. Body, mind, emotions, spirit. The kind of unraveling that leaves you wondering if you will ever find your way back to yourself.
I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and OCD at fifteen. I eventually got my Master’s in Social Work, partly to be of service in the world but also hopeful that maybe I could figure out my own mental health. I survived intense postpartum depression with each of my children. I have stood in the darkest rooms of my own inner world and wondered if the light would ever return.
As I laid under my healing tree during my darkest, deepest, most debilitating collapse in 2023, I realized my old ways of coping and ways of living my life were no longer accessible to me. My marriage was crumbling, I couldn’t mother my children, I had to pause my speaking and transformational coaching career.
And eventually...I found my way back to myself.
Not at all once. Never straight-forward. Not alone. An integral part of my rising from the ashes has been reacquainting myself with earth-based practices and working with microdosing psilocybin mushrooms.
What happened on the other side of that threshold is something I am still finding words for. I emerged. Not back to who I was but into someone I didn't even know was possible. A fullness. An aliveness. A way of moving through this life that I could not have imagined from where I was standing before.
That emergence is why The Liminal Gathering exists.
I co-created this space because I know what it means to need a circle that truly holds you. And I know what becomes possible when you finally find one.
If I can come home to myself, I know it's possible for you too.
With love and reverence,
Chelsea
Meet Emily
I choose to spend my life at thresholds. I know this is the space where, when supported, a woman steps into her power.
At the edge of a breath during labor. At the boundary between one self and another on the yoga mat. In the subtle whisper in your belly when speaking the truth enters your mind. In the sacred pause between who a woman was before and who she becomes after.
I am a DONA certified birth doula, a Somatic Coach, a registered yoga instructor, and a woman who has witnessed transformation in its most raw and elemental forms. I have breathed through the unmedicated birth of my own children, held hands in operating rooms as we navigate a shift in birth plans, and guided women through some of the most profound passages of their lives through breath and presence. What I know, in my bones, is this: the body holds wisdom we haven't yet learned to listen to and when we finally do, everything changes.
My work has always lived at the intersection of body, breath, and becoming. I specialize in somatic transformation, the kind that doesn't just shift your thinking, but rewires the way you inhabit yourself. I have walked alongside women through birth, through fertility journeys, returning to a physical practice on their mats, through the tender unraveling of transition. I have seen again and again what becomes possible when a woman is truly, wholly held and has space to remember herself.
The Liminal Gathering is the natural next threshold for me. A place where women can arrive in their bodies, breathe together, and find their way home to themselves...one breath, one step, one gathering at a time. I know this space, intimately, I have found this space myself in community and in ritual with other women and the earth.
Let’s experience this together. Ready? Breath in.
In love and light,
Emily
